http://www.postcourier.com.pg/weekendcourier/wchome.htm
Imagine leaving a luxurious job and returning home because of your people and your heart beats every second because of them. Peterson Tseraha explains more.
Only some very unique people in the world will ever do that to come back and rebuild a once war torn home.
Justine Borger 34 has one of these unique personalities. Born on October 16, 1967 and hailing from Kurai village in the south Nasioi Constituency. Under ABG member John Kens umbrella, Justine Borger is one of those Bougainvillean elite who has sacrificed to come home and help his people on Bougainville.
Mr Borger graduated with a bachelor in Commerce 1992 at the PNG University of Technology in the red hot days of the Bougainville crisis.
And just recently on April 14, he graduated with masters in Business Administration from the Southern Cross University Australia, which he sponsored himself.
Mr Borger sat on some hot and highly paid seats and was a truly super elite as we can say.
In 1993 he became a graduate employee of the Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) for eight months, and then became supply co-ordinator for four months then in 1994 he was promoted to contracts administrator, and in 1996 he was promoted to the most senior position as administrative supervisor, looking after Kiunga as area manager.
Mr Borger joined Ok Tedi Mining Ltd in 1993, as a graduate cadet under its two year Graduate Development Scheme undertaking sandwich training courses attached to the Materials Management Department.
After eight months he was offered a permanent position as the Supply Co-ordinator responsible for the disposal of scrap and depreciated assets, and co-ordinated staff training of 100 staff employees.
In 1994, he was offered another substantive position as the Contracts Administrator, responsible for the administration and management of major supply and services contracts to meet mine production requirements including catering, fuel supply, air charter services, and also responsible for the mine affected preferred area local contractors.
Continuous media coverage of Bougainville in dire straits made him sad and he was always thinking how he would return to help his people.
One day in 2001 as he was flipping through the Post-Courier he saw a position vacant for United Nations Development programme (UNDP) on Bougainville.
Seeing that as a perfect opportunity to assist his people in central Bougainville he applied straight away and was accepted. At last his ambition to assist Bougainville had been achieved.
Mr Borger officially joined UNDP on Bougainville in April 2001 as a Business Development Officer under the UNDP Bougainville Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Development Project, responsible for the identification of areas of economic intervention and small business management training as part of the reintegration of youths, women and former combatants and the promotion of business development activities in the region in partnership with the division of commerce.
And since 2006, Mr Borger was managing programs in the main thematic areas of peace building, good governance and institutional strengthening of the structures of the ABG, in the geographic districts of Kieta, Panguna and Wakunai in partnership with the relevant ABG divisions, serving as the UNDP Regional Program Co-ordinator.
Through his heart of full commitment to his work in which the UNDP has assigned him, shows he is a real committed officer.
Every mission he has taken has been completely successful.
And Mr Borger has been highly recognised for his services rendered to the UNDP. He has gained tremendous recognition among youth, women groups and chiefs.
“Many people have approached me and asked why I have left such a highly paid job and come home and work for the UN.
“I just simply told them my home is where my heart is and that there is no place like home and my people matter the most to me,” Mr Borger said.
Through his humbleness, people mainly youths have regarded him as fit to be a leader in all levels and aspects, because he had the real guts to come home and face his people and jump into hot soup with them.
Justine Borger even if he disagrees with a decision that has been made, he will do it diplomatically and professionally and that no one gets annoyed.
“You have to be very diplomatic in all issues and aspects especially here on Bougainville, you have to be very diplomatic because people here get easily upset,” Mr Borger said.
That is why people often regard him as a leader because in mediation through the courses run by UNDP he taught people to read both sides of the coin.
“Through my experiences working with the OTML in a mine, I have a great experience in mediation within groups and in my own capability I have spent my own money settling land issues and stopping fights because that’s what I came home to do.
“The thing which people here, especially in Bougainville need, is the delivery of services,” he said.
Apart from Mr Borger and also in the UNDP we have another two elite Bougainvilleans who came to work here at home.
They are Wesley Kenneth, Program Co-ordinator UNDP Bougainville and Edmond Benny, former team leader finance department OTML, and now Operations manager UNDP Bougainville.
“I appeal to every other Bougainville elite out there within PNG and abroad whatever you’re getting out there, home needs you more than ever now, elites are the ones who will take Bougainville to its destiny,” Mr Borger said.
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